Technical Devices

Product Round-up Mono laser printers have been available for 30 years and remain the bedrock of most business. From small printers in home offices to large ones in corporate departments, they print most of the commercial correspondence in the country, yet their technical specs have changed little.

They are now faster, have higher resolution and many print duplex. They also cost a lot less these days, although faster printers still command much higher prices. The key feature of mono lasers is that they print text much better than inkjets.

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A team of researchers has proved that it is possible to determine the IP address of a user and tie it with his Internet use, and even correlate this information to his file-sharing activity with high accuracy, by taking advantage of a privacy hole in Skype.

What’s more, the user is completely unaware of this happening and the entire scheme is easily scaled to incorporate the simultaneous monitoring of Internet usage patterns of some 10,000 users, and all for the extremely low price of some $500 per week.

“Real-time communication in the Internet is naturally done peer-to-peer (P2P), i.e., datagrams flow directly between the two conversing users. Full Article…

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called on the IT security industry to develop a new breed of systems that make it easy for people to use personal data only in appropriate ways.

“Think about systems that deal with ‘appropriate use’; that make people accountable for their use of data and that check that data is used in the right way,” he told the closing session of RSA Conference Europe 2011 in London.

Security developers should move beyond locking down information to finding ways of showing users only the data they should have access to, where the data has come from, where it is going, and how it should be used, he said.

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Amazon.com has slated a news conference for Wednesday, and media speculation focuses on the prospect that the Internet retailing major will unveil a tablet computer to compete with Apple Inc.’s market-dominating iPad. A new Kindle tablet would combine the retailer’s prominent electronic-book reader with connection to Amazon’s offerings of MP3 music and digital videos. And the media talk says the tablet will run on Google’s Android operating system, which means access to the Android applications at Amazon’s app store. The Wall Street Journal’s sources say the new tablet will have a roughly 9-inch screen; other reports say a 7-inch or 10-inch display is likely. Wednesday’s event is scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT. Should Appl

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If Apple can pull off a best quarter ever in June under less than optimal conditions, what sort of numbers will it report for September, which will reflect healthy iPad supplies, the back-to-school season and the refreshed MacBook Air and Mac Mini? Well find out after market close on October 18th, when the company reports Q4 2011 financial results.